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Also Known As Sergei Petrovich Novikov
Born March 20, 1938 (age 87) • Soviet Union
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1970)
Subjects Of Study manifold • topology
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
William Paul Thurston
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Stephen Smale
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Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
Grigori Perelman
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Andrei Okounkov
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Vladimir Voevodsky
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Maxim Kontsevich
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John Tate
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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
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John Willard Milnor, 2011.
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